The Only Use
sparse
in
The Great Gatsby
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- His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat.†
p. 167.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(sparse) not dense; or few in number and spread out
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)